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Memories of the Staffordshire Potteries
A nostalgic look back at the county's pottery industry with first-hand accounts, anecdotes and stories. Includes chapters on Bottle Ovens, Life in a Pottery town, Smoky Stoke and Potbank Humour.
Stoke-on-Trent in 50 Buildings
Explores the rich and fascinating history of Stoke-on-Trent through an examination of some of its greatest architectural treasures.
Secret Stoke-on-Trent
Explore Stoke-on-Trent's secret history through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs.
Stoke-on-Trent Pubs
This fascinating selection of photographs and informative text charts the history of pubs in Stoke
Most Splendid of Men
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Newcastle-under-Lyme Pubs
A fascinating tour of Newcastle-under-Lyme's thriving pub scene, charting the city's taverns, alehouses and watering holes, from past centuries to more recent times.
Burslem Through Time
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Burslem has changed and developed over the last century
Longton Through Time
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Longton has changed and developed over the last century.
Stoke-on-Trent
Stoke-on-Trent was the name given to the amalgamation of six famous Potteries towns, the other five being Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton and Tunstall. This book deals with the entire City, illustrating its wide variety of industries and the way of life of the people in the past. The world-wide reputation of Stoke was secured by the products of the pottery manufacturers. The innovations of men like Josiah Wedgwood, Josiah Spode and the Adams family - who had been making pots since the 15th century - built up a world-beating industry. The author vividly records much of the characteristic Potteries scene, of bottle-kilns, pit-heads and workers' cottages; and of the workers themselves, as they earned their living or enjoyed their recreations. Arnold Bennett, the City's literary giant, would have loved this book.
The Book of Ebenezer le Page
Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated, and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late twentieth century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of a place caught between the coasts of England and France yet a world apart from either. Ebenezer himself is fiercely independent, but as he reaches the end of his life he is determined to tell his own story and the stories of those he has known. He writes of family secrets and feuds, unforgettable friendships and friendships betrayed, love glimpsed and lost. The Book of Ebenezer Le Page is a beautifully detailed chronicle of a life, but it is equally an ...
